An Unknown Christian

The Kneeling Christian

• Chapter 1 – God’s Great
  Need

• Chapter 2 – Almost Incredible
  Promises

• Chapter 3 – “Ask of Me and I
  Will Give”

• Chapter 4 – Asking for Signs

• Chapter 5 – What is Prayer?

• Chapter 6 – How Shall I Pray?

• Chapter 7 – Must I Agonize?

• Chapter 8 – Does God Always Answer
  Prayer?

• Chapter 9 – Answers to Prayer

• Chapter 10 – How God Answers
  Prayer

• Chapter 11 – Hindrances to
  Prayer

• Chapter 12 – Who May Pray?

A traveller in China visited a heathen temple on a great
feast-day. Many were the worshippers of the hideous idol
enclosed in a sacred shrine. The visitor noticed that most
of the devotees brought with them small pieces of paper on
which prayers had been written or printed. These they would
wrap up in little balls of stiff mud and fling at the idol.
He enquired the reason for this strange proceeding, and was
told that if the mud ball stuck fast to the idol, then the
prayer would assuredly be answered; but if the mud fell
off, the prayer was rejected by the god.

We may smile at this peculiar way of testing the
acceptability of a prayer. But is it not a fact that the
majority of Christian men and women who pray to a Living
God know very little about real prevailing prayer? Yet
prayer is the key which unlocks the door of God’s
treasure-house.

It is not too much to say that all real growth in the
spiritual life-all victory over temptation, all confidence
and peace in the presence of difficulties and dangers, all
repose of spirit in times of great disappointment or loss,
all habitual communion with God-depend upon the practice of
secret prayer.

This book was written by request, and with much hesitancy.
It goes forth with much prayer. May He Who said, “Men
ought always to pray, and not to faint,” “teach
us to pray.”